A surreal staging at Shakespeare’s Globe in London leans hard into the drama’s comedy — and its cruelty
Cole Porter’s songs shine through this revival of the 1948 musical while its problems are cleverly addressed
400-year-old jokes still land in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production
It may be six decades old, but Alice Childress’s play at the Lyric Hammersmith in London is unnervingly topical
A cheerful send-up of podcasting, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit comes to London
A bracing tale of the cultural clash between arts and politics that still resonates today
The actor creates a tragic study in fragile masculinity in Arthur Miller’s classic drama at the London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket
The masters of immersive theatre return with a delicate, intimate tale, narrated by Helena Bonham Carter
A roundtable with Brian Cox, Simon Russell Beale, Kathryn Hunter and Greg Hicks at the National Theatre
A special edition of the FT Magazine reveals how 460 years after Shakespeare’s birth, his powers are undiminished
James Graham’s adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s TV series about unemployed people in Liverpool is punchy and humane
Unravelling the mystery of the tome handed down from one great actor to the next
London’s Riverside Studios hosts a feat of memory and variation that misses the depths of the tragedy
Emma D’Arcy and Kayla Meikle also star in Katie Mitchell’s deft and dreamlike adaptation of Maggie Nelson’s book
Using projections, poetry and music, the artist and theatre director has created a striking installation for Rouen cathedral
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers co-stars as an honest and bold Juliet at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London
John Cleese faithfully adapts his classic TV sitcom for the stage at the Apollo Theatre, London
Singer-songwriter Stew’s gloriously indefinable show about a young man’s journey opens at the Young Vic, London
Alice Childress’s ‘Wedding Band’ is theatre that should never have been forgotten, says director Monique Touko
Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about Iranian people learning English touches on identity and history
Sean Foley’s production serves up an ersatz version of the cult film
Trafalgar Theatre revival about a woman in rehab is as witty as it is painful
Danny Sapani rakes over insults and injuries in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s snappy play
She portrayed a queen on the eve of her execution in Robert Wilson’s demanding production at London’s Barbican
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